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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Good Grief Blog

To gather. To grieve. To celebrate. To praise. To mourn. To love.A Scrapbooking Journey through Loss and Healing.

Those are the taglines on the new blog my good friend Amanda began recently. Amanda is an incredibly talented scrapbooker and while I could list her scrapping resume*, all you really need to know is this: she is a very creative, funny, caring person who knows how to tell a story. She also lost her Dad two years ago in an accident, and kinda got lost herself for awhile.

Until she returned to her scrapbooking and began recording stories about her Dad. She found her way again and felt compelled to share her journey of healing through the Good Grief Blog.

To quote Amanda, theGood Grief Blog is "intended to help in that process of loss and healing...to be a source of inspiration and motivation...and to simply be a place to share and know that others understand."

There are scrapbooking challenges which will be added to twice a month - challenges helpful to anyone who wants to record memories and feelings about someone they've lost. Even if you aren't a scrapbooker, the challenges may help you focus your thoughts whether you keep them private, in a journal, or decide to share them in letters to family and friends. There is a message board with space for discussions on grieving and prayer requests, an area for celebrating those loved ones, and galleries for sharing your creations, if you feel like doing so.

It's a lovely place. Check it out and bookmark it even if you aren't currently grieving. And I pray that you won't need to visit for a long time to come.

*Amanda has a monthly column in Creating Keepsakes magazine, her own book Month to Month Scrapbooking, and is a Design team member for Prism Papers. She is also a wonderfully attentive mother who home schools her three beautiful boys, and an amazing friend.

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About Me

Wife to Rich, Momma to 3 beautiful daughters and 3 purring cats. I love spending time outdoors, spending time with family, and volunteering at school, church and elsewhere. I love to cook, bake, sew, embroider, read, garden, camp, preserve the food we grow, and hang out fresh laundry. Really. I have a scrapbooking obsession, and an inability to concentrate on anything else when I have an unfinished book in the house.